[Gambas-user] Method overloading in Gambas

[David Paleino]

Hello,
other languages (C# and Java can do this, possibly also others) have the
ability to "overload" methods. Quick example:

---8<---
PUBLIC SUB Method()
    ' Arg1 and Arg2 are properties, which could be set with Arg*_Write()
    ' methods, or can be default values, or ...
    Method(Arg1, Arg2)
END SUB

PUBLIC SUB Method(Arg1 AS Variant, Arg2 AS Variant)
    [..]
END SUB
--->8---

(obviously, if one calls Method(), he should've set Arg1 and Arg2 already)

This is easily doable using a "helper" sub, like:

---8<---
PUBLIC SUB Method()
    Arg1 = [..] ' get these from somewhere
    Arg2 = [..]
    DoStuff(Arg1, Arg2)
END SUB

PUBLIC SUB Method(Arg1 AS Variant, Arg2 AS Variant)
    DoStuff(Arg1, Arg2)
END SUB

PRIVATE SUB DoStuff(Arg1 AS Variant, Arg2 AS Variant)
    [..]
END SUB
--->8---

(note the redundancy in method signatures...)

Benoit, is it possible to have this feature in gambas3?

Ciao,
David

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